As all of you, our readers might know, Activision has decided to give an exclusive demo of Call of Duty of unlimited duration to FILEPLANET. As a result a consensus was reached among most independent media outlets not to post the demo completely, even after the exclusive duration passes. Here's the full text.
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After discussions with Activision, the following websites
will not be carrying the Call of Duty playable demo, even after its
exclusivity is over.Â* This is due to Activision's decision to not
accede to the reasonable request of making demo freely available to
all game enthusiasts at the same time.
3D Downloads
3D Gamers
Blue's News
FileFront
FileShack
Gamer's Hell
Tiscali Games
WorthPlaying
The above-listed websites hope to show Activision that the enthusiast
industry is strongly opposed to the idea of exclusive demo releases.
Feedback from our users shows that gamers hate to be forced through
a single point of congestion if they want a demo right away.Â* While
these websites are actually competitors, this competition provides
the freedom of choice that enthusiasts want by offering the widest
possible distribution of any demo (a sample intended to interest as
many gamers as possible in the full product, after all) rather than
the most restricted one.
Therefore, something this disrespectful of the industry as a whole has
inspired all of these websites to stand together in this open letter.
Deals like this hurt the industry much more than they could possibly
enhance a single relationship, and we ask for your support in sending
out this message.
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